TOXIC CONTRACT REBELS SHOULD BE PUT ON GARDENING LEAVE.

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The games are coming thick and fast. The dust has barely settled on the Chelsea win and I’m already panicking over two teams lower than us in the league.

It’s worth talking about some things before we power onto what’s next.

The league is still very tight. I made a point about 4 weeks ago that February is when you’ll truly know how good or bad Arsenal will be this season. Well, we found out way earlier than February that Arteta’s 1.0 vision of Arsenal was utterly shite.

However, what you missed when you were floating in a bath of misery vomit was that everyone else has been shite as well. Liverpool drew to West Brom. Spurs dropped points to Wolves. Chelsea lost to a team having its worst season since the plague was the pandemic people were most concerned about.

We are 9 points shy of 5th. Now, I’m not ramping up the top 4 challenge banter, that’s well and truly over, but we are more than capable of climbing the table over the next 5 games. We have to. Arteta needs breathing room and the fans need some joy.

  • Brighton
  • West Brom
  • Palace
  • Newcastle
  • Southampton

Bag 15 points from those games and we’ll be feeling a lot better about life.

Generally, the mood has lightened after the game yesterday. Mikel found something we haven’t seen since last season. The players flew out the traps and kept up the intensity for the whole game. The Arsenal Column had a great tactical analysis of the game here. I liked this point.

The other noticeable thing about the change in shape – or rather formation – was the relaxing somewhat, of the positional play philosophy that Arteta has attempted to implement since be took over. There were still specific instructions given to players about which areas of the pitch to occupy – for example, as mentioned, Saka was asked to move inside from the right flank, which in turn allowed Hector Bellerin to hug the touchline; whilst Emile Smith-Rowe was mainly told to gravitate towards the left as Gabriel Martinelli joined the centre forward, to create a certain symmetry in the build up – but overall, the positioning seemed less restrictive.

Arteta took the handbrake off in a number of ways. He put trust in hunger and suitability, binning off the view that only older hacks can do what he needs. It also looked like he reined in some of the over-coaching. We looked less mechanical. The team played with more freedom. There was more joy. It didn’t always work, but the freedom of ideas led to faster passing, more creativity, and a little bit more spontaneity.

Mikel needs to bottle whatever the magic was and work out how he delivers it against teams that won’t dominate the ball. I hate playing Brighton because they are a very well-coached team, combined with having a very unsexy name, which can and has lead to complacent performances.

A great way to combat complacency? Continue to give responsibility to players that need it to have a career. Don’t let Luiz and Willian back into the squad yet. If the defence needs to change, don’t put Mustafi in there, he doesn’t care, he’s thinking about Barcelona. If our front three needs to change, don’t give Nicolas Pepe another chance, it is clear he’s not good enough and doesn’t suit what we’re trying to do at Arsenal. If you’re going to swap Mo Elneny out, don’t automatically give it to Dani Ceballos, give it to AMN. He runs harder, he’s a better defender, he’ll give us the legs we’ve lacked.

The magic we found against Chelsea, outside lady luck, was energy and desire. Is that enough to take Arsenal to top four? No. The quality isn’t there at the moment. But it is enough to earn us enough points to push up the table. We gave up half a season to ‘experience’ and it fucked us. It downed tools. It grassed the new manager to the Technical Director. It planted a story in the papers to bury the club in a sea of weirdo hate after a loss they were sure was coming. Sickening.

Time to move on from toxic bitches, 2021 is gonna be different, yas qweeeeen.

Arsenal has to live with the Auba deal. I think we can rescue that. He’s the best finisher in the league. His game is not necessarily built on pace. If we surround him with powerful runners that create space for him, he’ll start scoring goals again. Auba is a mood guy. When the chips are up, he’s flying. When they are down, he’s crying in the corner posting sad emoji’s on Instagram Stories for attention. He’ll be back I suspect, I think he likes to be adored, no way he signed to down tools.

Willian? I don’t know what we do there. I thought at the very least we were getting a Rolls Royce professional, but that appears to be a generous assessment of what he offers. He can’t run, he doesn’t create, and he doesn’t score… but we’re lumped with him. That’s on Mikel. What I don’t want to see is Arsenal go out of their way to rehab a player that is deeply into the back 9 of their career, especially if he can’t do the basics like stay away from Salt Bae. We might be taking the Mesut Bogarde L again.

I hope there are some big moves out of Arsenal in January. We have too many players exiting deals within half a year / are not in the squad to have a focused training camp. 5 of them will be out in January. There’s no resale value. Why don’t we bomb them out of their deals early? What is their purpose? They’re causing problems, they aren’t putting in performances, they’re barely making the squad. Send them home for 5 months.

There is no value in keeping people at the company who are on notice. If it’s Dennis Bergkamp playing for another year, it works, he has skin in the game. Imagine you have been put on a year’s worth of gardening leave like Mesut or Sokratis, but you have to go to the office 5 days a week? Imagine you know you are leaving at the end of the season and you’ve been unceremoniously benched? Senior players dealing with embarrassing rejection dealt to them by a young coach some of them played with. Senior players knowing their next contract value is plummetting every week they don’t play. Are we surprised they want to burn the place down on their slow walk to freedom?

If the environment is toxic, cut out the poison. But here’s the thing, make sure you analyse why this happened: We paid average players MASSIVELY above market rate, so there was never an incentive to leave. We did that again last summer with Willian. It is absolutely shocking we don’t have a tool that evaluates a player’s worth before we dish out contracts no other club in the world would offer.

Onto transfers…

I’d heard the club was looking at a Dortmund player a couple of weeks ago, apparently, it’s Julian Brandt. Obviously, he’s a top player. Jurgen Klopp wanted to sign him before Michael Edwards convinced him to move on Mo Salah. We need a creative player that floats like him. My worry is that we’re not grounding ourselves in reality again. The club is fucked from a money perspective. Our wage bill is atrocious, it’s very likely we’ll have no European football, and our own manager has gone on record saying we’re 6 players away. Why would we drop minimum £50m on a single player? Should we not be getting back to basics here. Address the whole squad versus dumping out a huge fee on one superstar while the rest of the team burns? We need a David Luiz replacement. We’ll need to replace our midfield because Dani, Xhaka, and Mo lack future proof credentials. We need a backup keeper. A back-up right back. Probably a new #9. At least one new winger if we can bin Nicolas Pepe.

Our summer rebuild needs to be extensive… blowing our money on a big name seems, well, like a weird plan? I’m also wondering why he’d want to leave that set up right now, because it’s probably going to be pretty good for him next season. Bigger thing for me is Brandt feels like the sort of player I’d throw up if you asked me to name creative players I’d be quite interested in. Who is the Gabriel Magalhães of creatives? Can we not find that profile in a player that costs £20m and £45k p/w? Mike McDonald finds more interesting targets than Edu.

I have no clue what the club is going to do in January, but I suspect it’ll be loan moves. There’s no Champions League to chase now, so there’s no need to premature ejaculate cash at a short term goal. KSE should be holding the exec team to a higher standard of rationale for the players they choose. If we need a creative player and a keeper this January, let’s make sure they make sense, even if they are loans. Those loan deals need to speak to the future profile of players we need, because Arteta needs to show people what he’s trying to do, so it makes sense when we buy players for real.

Let’s not see Christian Eriksen at the club, he has the same issues as Ozil, and he can’t cut it in the slowest league in Europe. Isco could be interesting for us, he’s mobile, has played at the highest level, and no one is interested in him… he still has a lot to offer if you can unlock him and help him lose some weight.

Clubs around the world are struggling badly with the weight of fat wage bills, there must be players we can bring in that can match the profile of the squad. No more bums. We should keep the powder dry if we can’t do something smart.

Right, listen to the podcast and I’ll see you in the comments.

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Ishola70

Dissenter “Having Saka and Martinelli on either side of him will open up spaces for him to thrive.” You see you are making the offense all about Auba again. Fair enough you may say because of his previous goal scoring record but from the last match it was clear that the offense as a whole was more cohesive and in tandem. I’d refer you to gunnerram’s post near the start of the thread. Of course as said this doesn’t mean banishment for Auba. Just give this offensive line another go. If it doesn’t produce Auba comes on as sub and… Read more »

Chris

Ishola “ Calling for him to be benched for a period it’s not having it in for him.” It wasn’t a case of giving him a rest, some wanted him gone gone. “That offense without Auba was clearly more lively, vibrant and cohesive than we have seen for a while.Besides a little time out may be good for Auba himself.” It was a sample size of one game, we looked good but a quality player like Aubameyang still has a part to play in that. “He’s been carrying this club on his shoulders since he has joined the club.” Agree… Read more »

G8

Good read Pedro,
We could and should get 3 points tomorrow, but I am afraid Arteta is one step forward 2 steps backward !
He would likely revert to type !

Let’s see

Graham62

englandsbest

Bad decisions made with good intentions are still bad decisions.

Goobergooner

Haha yeah which manager is going to come in and be like, you know what, I’m going for relegation this season.

Marc

“Bag 15 points from those games and we’ll be feeling a lot better about life.”

Er we’ve picked up 8 points from a possible 33 and now we’re going to get 15 from 15.

Got bored and stopped reading the post – it’s sheer delusion. Let’s see if we can pick up back to back wins in the PL before we start talking about going on a run.

Goobergooner

Hahaha Marc, always with that hit of reality. Thanks, I think I was drifting towards the delusion.

Goobergooner

People will be right at some point in time when they say we will win the next 5 games, after every game.

Goobergooner

8 points from 33. Fuck that’s horrid

Goobergooner

Yet apparently deserving of a job for life.

Ishola70

Marc

“Er we’ve picked up 8 points from a possible 33 and now we’re going to get 15 from 15.”

We’ve got to set the bar high for Teets now though haven’t we after the torrid time he has had thus far.

Otherwise Pedro will be implying that a few odd wins here and there will be acceptable as we race up to the table to 11th place.

DaveCee

This for me is the KEY point this January, get rid of the toxic shit floating around the club. Pay them off if need be. Don’t add anyone else until the squad is manageable.
Pedro, thanks for the podcasts, brightens up anotherwise full xmas

Marc

Goober / Ishola

I’m finding it really difficult to find any positives around Arsenal at the moment. The win was great but I firmly believe Arteta is going to do serious and long lasting damage to the club and the longer he’s at the club the worse it will be, anything that keeps him here is therefore a negative.

Goobergooner

Haha watching inter vs Arsenal from 03/04.

Pascal cygan is a way bigger hack than I remember.

But what a team that used to be. Thierry, Pires, Freddie, edu, Cole, just the whole team.
Does Henry have a son who can play?

Goobergooner

We are with ya pal. This should be a time when the club comes together, but nothing they do reflects the fans anymore.
The club is so out of touch and I think that’s why it’s even harder to be positive.

Graham62

Carlo Ancelotti on Sky.

I wish we had him rather than MA.

Just the character we needed after Emery.

Never mind.

Aussie+Gooner

EB

“His stated intention is to return Arsenal to the elite.”

Wouldn’t that be the war cry of every new manager? It is just his ability to deliver has been so underwelming! Let us see if he has learnt anything from the Chavs game!

englandsbest

Graham62

Bad decisions with bad intentions are worse. That seems to sum up the wailers on here.

I had you down as someone perceptive and patient. On record Arteta has already won a trophy, an indicator, surely, of managerial talent?

As for his intentions, they ring honest and true. And for me that is a prime essential. And as for his mistakes, he will learn from them.

Kaz

This was much better Pedro. Well written.

Ishola70

I’m not even sure the image thing is going for Arteta now tbh.

He looked pale on the sidelines against Chelsea and had a vagrant look what with the unshaven thing going on again.

And those wild eyes.

Pressure is getting to him no doubt.

Jamie

“Er we’ve picked up 8 points from a possible 33 and now we’re going to get 15 from 15.

Let’s see if we can pick up back to back wins in the PL before we start talking about going on a run.”

I’m still feeling fairly jubilant after the win, but this is a fair dose of reality. 8 points from 33 is toilet form.

Let’s adopt Wengerite mathematics (3 FA Cups in 4 years instead of 3 FA Cups in 11 or whatever) and start counting from our last win .

3 points from 3 let’s go!

Goobergooner

3 from 3 is a great return😂😂😂

Goobergooner

Who was it, quantum leap who was talking about winning streaks of 1

Guembusy

Pedro “Can we not find that profile in a player that costs £20m and £45k p/w?” This must be the way we will go about all the transfers in the next two windows. This way we counterbalance the loss of having to pay rejects to leave the club. Trust the youngsters and bring in few additions. We need to steady the ship now and climb a bit up the table. We should not be asking for more. I believe Arteta needs to turn things around if he wants to be here beyond May. His mission becomes more difficult when he… Read more »

Jamie

“3 from 3 is a great return”

Near the top of the form table, no doubt about it.

Valentin

I used to work for a bank that every 5 years has a whole salary market review. Look at every position and compare what people were earning and how much they would be earning at comparable rival. Anybody earning more than 10% above the market rate was either told to do one or that their bonus would be lowered to make sure that the overall compensation was in line with the market. Those would receive no basic wage increase for the next 5 years. You want to leave, good luck finding somebody willing to pay you as much as you… Read more »

Graham62

englandsbest

Who in their right mind would have bad intentions?

Give me a list of Arteta’s good decisions these past 4 months.

Not so easy is it.

My list of bad decisions is rather extensive.

Graham62

Valentin

I know, it doesn’t make sense.

Runarsson is a joke.

Kaz

Rich

Re your last point in the other article, look analytically it makes sense in terms of ways we can be improved. But you are completely overlooking the rivalry.

Those two won’t come to us ever. They are too connected to Tottenham.

Jamie

“how on earth can somebody justify paying Runnarsson £40kpw”

No one on Earth justified paying Rúnarsson £40kpw because there is literally zero credible evidence that he’s earning £40kpw at Arsenal.

Same debunked nonsense ad nauseam. Find some new material.

Valentin

The personnel selection was not done by choice, it was forced upon Arteta. He may have stumbled by accident on a winning formula, but he is as likely to revert to type. The so called freedom and release of the hand-break had more to do with Martinelli and his infectious energiser bunny attitude. Seeing him pressing and closing down opponents inspire others to do the same. That resulted in more movement and more possibility when we retrieve the ball into midfield for quick vertical passes. There is a reason why Xhaka looked good, he had willing runners in front of… Read more »

Valentin

Jamie,

You are the one who refuse to believe what every major newspaper have reported.
The only debunked thing is you arguing that Runarsson is earning less than what Arsenal offers to 1st contract players.

Goobergooner

And willians 250k pw.

Jamie

Val – I have no idea how you get through life without basic critical thinking. “Every major newspaper” Fine. Find a source from a major newspaper which either 1. predates this ‘Icelandic outfit DV’ (which incidentally removed any reference to his alleged wages in the article and also got the length of the deal wrong) September 14 2020 16:00 https://www.dv.is/433/2020/9/14/runar-alex-laeknisskodun-hja-arsenal-dag-tolfraedin-frakklandi-ekki-god/ or 2. Doesn’t reference the claim made in the Icelandic outfit DV as the source of his alleged wages (because it’s been removed from the ‘article’). You won’t be able to do either of these things, because other sources do… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

Hold on. No on Erickson, a premier proven player but a yes on Isco?

Don’t get me wrong, both aren’t right but I need specifics on why one and not the other.

What we need is either decent players from our league from relegation threatened teams or some Unfancied players from the German, Dutch or Asian leagues.

Sell sell sell.

London gunner

Jamie

runnar is being paid 40k

Jamie

London gunner –

Prove it without referencing a deleted line from an Icelandic tabloid.

Goobergooner

Guns you just want takuma asano back. Feel like he didn’t get the chance he deserved

Chika

Arteta could have easily started Pepe, Ceballos, Mustafi, Willock. The idea that he didn’t do any form tinkering and only stumbled on the line up is pure bullshit.

Quit bitching and trust the process!

Arteta Knows Best.

Ishola70

Pedro is laughing now about Xhaka and his non apology when acting the twat yet again in the sending off against Burnley.

Apparently it’s fine now that he left his team in the lurch against Burnley because he made amends with the freekick against Chelsea.

How about both? An apology for his Burnley madness and a freekick goal against Chelsea. Or is that too much to ask.

Pedro never learns regarding Xhaka.

He names a hill after Xhaka that everybody dies on apparently one week and the next thinks Xhaka is good lad after all.

Ishola70

Pedro why are you laughing on your twitter line about Xhaka’s non-apology regarding the Burnley match?

Poor form Pedro.

Ishola70

I’ve never associated Isco with searing pace tbh.

London gunner

Jamie

its arsenal afc we are run by clowns of the highest order.

I dont need to prove diddly squat it proves itself.

London gunner

ishola

Pedro can be very hypocritical at times. Xhaka non apology is very much a breach of areta non negotiables but apparently that’s ok..

Chika

Ishola, would an apology from Xhaka change your perception about him?

London gunner

buendia for 20 mill seems a great deal. Norwich can’t say no to that kind of money

Anonymous Commentator

ESR is the only player that can save our season at this point, players want to make runs when he gets the ball, it’s really a no brainer.
Let’s see what arteta does instead.

Goobergooner

Nope xhaka is still a cunt. Just the fact he didn’t apologise reiterates that fact, and leaves it for all to see. considering he told the fans to fuck off. He should be kissing our asses

Anonymous Commentator

Talk of making signings is bizarre to me considering we can’t even register our full squad.
Who are we selling and are they currently registered in the squad?

London gunner

AC

esr is the only player who occupies space in the pocket which completely changes how we can distribute and move the ball.

Jamie

“I dont need to prove diddly squat it proves itself.”

I accept your resignation.

Ishola70

Chika
“would an apology from Xhaka change your perception about him?”

No not me personally but it just rubberstamps his childish selfish character that he didn’t make an apology.

London gunner

Jamie

my resignation as In I am resigned to the fact I am correct?

Chris

I think you are wasting your time Jamie.

So many people taking one link (with dubious credibility) that is posted on multiple platforms as gospel. One day they may understand!

Jamie

London – Your resignation from the game. You made a claim you’re unable to prove with any credible evidence, so you’re out. Just Val left, who’s either currently scouring NewsNow for other references to Rúnarsson’s wages, or has already given up and won’t mention it again for another week or two. So much shit to fling at the board, but Rúnarsson’s salary isn’t high up on the list. He’s shite, and will probably end up costing us £5m max over the length of his deal assuming the worst case that he rides out the next 3.5 seasons in the under… Read more »

London gunner

chris

its never dubious with arsenal just dubious business practice and wage allotment. I wouldn’t be surprised if runnar turns out to be more than 40 bands

Ishola70

Runnarson was reported to be on 6kpw at Dijon.

Chika

“ESR is the only player that can save our season at this point.”

Oh, I thought it was Martinelli.
Btw, are these players not on our payroll?

London gunner

Jamie

its you who can’t prove that I am incorrect so technically pal you lost this argument.

Jamie

London gunner –

“its you who can’t prove that I am incorrect”

This is amazing. Google ‘burden of proof’. Report back with results.

Chika

Ishola

“No not me personally”

Then you should allow the bereaved to drown in their tears.

Graham62

I know I’m not the only one on here who thinks this but talking incessantly about who we should/should not we signing has always been a big turn off for me.

We should concentrate on who we have first of all, who will benefit the club and those who we need to offload.

Let’s get our own house in order.

Far more important.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Good post Pedro.

I was under the impression that we had a new contract team who would iron out the long term issues of contracts given out…
FFS we ain’t out of the ozil deal and we have signed the next version.

Graham62

be signing

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Hear hear

Graham…

Fact over fantasy

Rich

Kaz You see what I mean by the profile of No8 we should be targeting though….. We don’t want some technical lightweight, who drops into pockets, and isn’t up for the fight. If we’re going to play with full backs taking up aggressive positions, plenty of width, and crosses into the box We need an aggressive No8 with stamina, who presses from the front, plays on the front foot, and who’s natural game is to go hunting in the box. I can’t stand Dele Alli, but in terms of profile, he’s the style of player we should be looking at.… Read more »

Ishola70

Chika
”Then you should allow the bereaved to drown in their tears.”

Yeah.

Have you seen this hill people die on? It’s termed “Xhaka hill” apparently.

Marc

I couldn’t give a fuck if Xhaka apologises or not. I care that he still seems to be close to the first name on the team sheet.

All this talk about apologising for your actions is diverting attention from Arteta onto Xhaka. Fuck Xhaka this is about Arteta’s bullshit in saying one thing and then doing the exact opposite and the negative effect it has on the club.

azed

Pedro

Good post but no to Isco. No to have been players looking to resurrect their careers.

We are at a unique point were our best players are up and coming and we need players willing to grow with them.

We need players willing to take the next step in their careers.
This is the time we should be raiding the championship or bottom clubs in France.

No player above 26.

Marc

Graham

If we had a tonne of cash we could spend then right now a debate about where best and who we should spend it on would be fine.

We’re not going to have much if anything to spend and it’s likely the higher ups at the club are going to be looking at re budgeting because we’ll have no European football next season. Any benefit of getting Ozil and Mustafi off the wage bill we be instantly lost.

Chika

No to Brandt, yes to Bissouma and Buendia.

Return Ceballos, offload Nketiah and Willock.

Rich

We’re linked with Buendia, he looks like a decent player.

If we’re going all out for a forward player though

It should be Pedro Neto

He looks like the real deal.

Plays with the type of tenacity that Pepe can only dream about.

Rich

Chika

Complete agree on Bissouma.

Would be a fantastic central midfield partner for Partey

It would be our most physically dominant midfield partnership, since Vieira + Petit over 20 years ago.

Chris

I would like to see us sign Buendia, allow ESR to compete with him.

Marc

Rich

And how much would Neto cost?

Chika

Haha Xhaka is bitch slapping lots of folks in their dreams. You’re never getting the apology you secretly crave for. Burn!

Ishola70

Chris
“I would like to see us sign Buendia, allow ESR to compete with him.”

Signing Buendia will kill off Willock.

Pierre will be having words with you later on.

Chika

Rich

Fully agree too. I’d like to our midfield very dominant and combative. Good thing both Partey and Bissouma are both blessed with good technique as well.

Chika

Willock is too erratic, sell him off!

Kris

This is the time to raid Ligue 1 for young players with potential. They would all be bargains.

Buy some five, six of them for a combined 10 or 15 M, then loan them out.
Keep one or two of the best. Sell the rest for profit.
FFS, Chelsea have been doing that for ages because it works.
Unless we have HIGHER principles (clue: We don’t have any principles if it involves money — see Ozil+China love affair)

DivineSherlock

Azed / Pedro

I know we have been badly hurt by loans and by the sounds of it we are looking at Riqui Puig or Nkunku type players. But to scoff at Isco is quite frankly foolish . He instantly makes us better creatively . I understand ESR is quite ready but he is still young and a short loan wouldnt hurt anyone. Think Benayoun at Arsenal.

azed

Pedro

The only thing Isco on loans does for us is take us up the first half of the table.
I would rather we get a long term prospect who would use the 2nd half of the season to get used to our style of play.

Ishola70

Kris
“This is the time to raid Ligue 1 for young players with potential. They would all be bargains.”

We did have a young French player with potential who was a “bargain”. He is/was the French U21 captain.

And he got binned off.

And Arteta still continues to let Xhaka take the piss.

Chris

Even with additions I think Willock is a player we should keep on our books, there is more to come from him, but that’s just my opinion.

Bring in Buendia, allow Willock to go on loan o hopefully gain a full seasons worth of experience and regular starting games.

Evan

It’s worldie time
No more signing once were WC players that can’t get any game time. They are either medically challenged or are headcases causing squad rift’s. Can we sign such a player?
Hell yes, there must be a player(s) that actually love Arsenal and would sign, show them the money and give them a hug.

englandsbest

,Graham62 Take another read of my post. Arteta stated his intentions clearly: a return of Arsenal to the elite. The wailers want Arteta fired, no matter what. I make that a bad decision and a bad intention. So much so, they make themselves look ridiculous by blaming him for mistakes that he had nothing to do with. A manager with good intentions is essential to a Club like Arsenal. We are not Chelsea or Real Madrid. At the end Wenger was a man with bad intentions. That became clear when he sold RvP to Man U. Gazidis, too – otherwise… Read more »

Jamie

Pedro – I completely agree – he is a total waste. I’m just pushing back on the nonsense that he’s costing us £40k a week for 4 years. “not to mention a dangerous signing because he’s so bad.” I mean, this is it. He’s been a disaster because he’s so dangerously below the required level and will/has cost us games, not because we’ve wasted significant money on a player we won’t be able to sell/release due to his outrageous wages. He’ll be gone in the summer, either on a long-term loan or released. The worry is finding a solid replacement… Read more »

Jamie

Hopefully* he’ll be gone in the summer

DivineSherlock

Isco is not anyone or mine first choice to be clear , but in a team struggling for creativity and a bit of experience in final third , a player who has played in 3UCL finals is no joke . Might help us in Europa League as well. If we can manage someone else that fit the profile sure , but a backup plan in Isco is no bad thing.

Goobergooner

No Chika, Arteta is bitch slapping us in reality with shit football and the fact he’s a hypocrite. It’s not even about xhaka anymore. Even emery benched the twat. He shouldn’t be an arsenal player anymore.

Samir

Rúnarsson was on 6K per week at Dijon.
Why would we offer him 40K per week? Surely he should be on about 10-15K per week?

I know various outlets say he’s on 40K per week…But I just cannot believe it.

Dissenter

Jamie You have no idea about what Runnarsson’s wages are so you’re just shooting blinding into the dark when you dispute it. s £40k a week for 4 years. That 40k weekly figure comes from the same veins of information that says that Ozil is on 350k weekly. – the tabloids and the internet . You don’t doubt that Ozil is on 350k weekly, do you? You can argue that it makes no logical sense but since when did Arsenal’s wages start to make sense. You said it yourself- you have no faith in our recruitment. The entire recruitment of… Read more »

Graham62

englandsbest

I relate all my opinions on what I see for myself and, over these past four months, what I’ve seen from Arteta doesn’t make particular good viewing.

Not questioning his commitment but I am questioning his perceptions on many things.

Goobergooner

England’s best.

Mate you are an absolute sook.

If literally anyone took over, they would want to take us to the top.

Wtf is so special about Arteta saying words, that he looks so Incapable of achieving?

We are 14th In the league. We have regressed since Emery.

G8

Runnerson I guess earns between 10 to 20k a week
It’s still a criminal signing even if he is on 2k/ a week
Someone is taking the piss at Arsenal and he or she must be a spud in the closet